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(No Model.)

- A. L. WILD.

LAOING STRING.

No. 487,411. Patented Dec; 6, 1892.

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UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFICE.

ANNIE L. WILD, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND.

LAClNG-STRING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 487,411, dated December 6, 1892. Application filed July 5, 1892 Serial No.438,965- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ANNIE L. WILD, of Providence, in the county of Providence and State of Rhode Island, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Lacing Strings; and I hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, forming part of this specification.

This invention has reference to improve ments in lacing-strings which are particularly adapted for use as shoe-lacings.

The object of this invention is to produce a shoe or other lacing which will be strong and durable and which will not readily become untied. A further object of this invention is to provide a flexible lacing-string having tips which are more securely attached to the string than those as heretofore constructed.

The invention consists in certain peculiar features of construction and combination of parts, which will hereinafter be more fully described, and pointed out in the claim.

The figure represents an enlarged View of a portion of a lacing, showing my improved construction.

Similar numerals of reference designate corresponding parts throughout.

In carrying out my invention I incorporate among the strands or threads of which the lacing-string 5 is composed one or more flexible metallic strands 6. This may be done during the construction of the string or subsequently thereto. The metallic strand 6 preferably extends in a direction at an angle to the threads of which the lacing-string is composed; but if it is proposed to construct a flat lacing by weaving the strand 6 may form one of the warp-threads on which the filling is held. The ends of the metallic strand 6 may be left unsecured; butI prefer to extend. the ends of the same beyond theends of the lacing and secure the metallic strand to the lacing by coiling the ends of the strand 5 in a close-tapering spiral around the end of the lacing, as shown in the figure of the drawing, to form the tip 7. By this construction the lacing is greatly strengthened, and While perfectly pliable and flexible for the purpose of tying a knot in the same will not readily become untied, owing to the bendsin the metallic strand. Moreover, the tips 7 or 8 will be more firmly secured than if astened directly to the lacing withoutthe use of the metallic strand.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent In a lacing, the combination, with abraid or tape of textile materiah of a metallic strand extending longitudinally therethrough and having its ends coiled around the ends thereof, as and for the purpose described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

ANNIE L. \VILD. WVitnesses:

HENRY J. MILLER, M. F. BLIGH. 

